Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
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Dedications | Mary Shelley | |
Publishing | Mary Shelley | In 1823 William Godwin
(inspired by a successful dramatisation of his daughter's novel, playing at the Lyceum Theatre
in London as Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein) arranged a second edition for MS
's... |
Literary responses | Mary Shelley | The Quarterly Review was horrified by Frankenstein's tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity, Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 18 (1818): 382 Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 18 (1818): 382 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820. Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 413-24. 414 Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Edmund Burke
, and... |
politics | Maria Riddell | In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin
's Political Justice) MR
became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy
, had resisted... |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian won for AR
the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias
, scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto
to honour her in the same place... |
politics | Amelia Opie | Amelia Alderson (later AO
) attended the treason trials at the Old Bailey of Horne Tooke
and Thomas Holcroft
(friends of her family) and other would-be reformers; it was here that she got to know... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin
, she met Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Wollstonecraft
(who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | Both Holcroft
(who, four times married and widowed, was now fresh from being arrested for treason and discharged) and Godwin
(while not yet a lover of Wollstonecraft) took a romantic or flirtatious as well as... |
Textual Features | Amelia Opie | Adeline's mother, Mrs Mowbray, is a widowed spoiled child of rich parents. Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press. 8 Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press. 9 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Amelia Opie | Aiming at a reasoned critique, through Adeline and Glenmurray, of Wollstonecraft
's principles, and specifically her relationship with Godwin
, AO
seems to give higher priority to the intensification of her heroine's virtue, self-sacrifice, and... |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library
includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs
or her husband; a few are from her... |
Textual Production | Mrs Martin | The Minerva Press
issued the first novel by the talented but untraced MM
: Deloraine. A Domestic Tale, by a Lady, in two volumes; the preface is signed with her pseudonym, Helen of Herefordshire |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | The Spectator, in praising Norman's Bridge, said that the only work to touch it was William Godwin
's Caleb Williams. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
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